Posts from the “rape” Category

When I first started writing about marital rape back in 2009 I couldn’t have anticipated that it would become one of the key issues to bring people to this blog. But it is, and so I’ve got into a bit of a cycle now. The more I post about marital rape for instance the more likely it is that this blog becomes a landing place for people searching for information about it, and the more people who land here having searched for information about marital rape, the more I get to see the search terms people are using for it, and the more I get to see of those the more likely I am to write about the subject again, and on and on it…

Some of you may remember last year’s disastrous decision by UNISON’s National Delegate Conference (NDC) to reject an amendment in support of believing women who report male violence perpetrated against them: here’s a link to the piece I wrote at the time – UNISON Conference and the vote against women. As you can see from that piece, a number of us who’d been involved in crafting the amendment went away from last year’s conference deflated but determined to bring the issue back this year. Indeed, the piece I’ve linked to ends: “But rest assured, all of us who were involved in pushing for the amendment are conscious of how we fucked up, and we’re already making plans for how we get it back to…

It’s the 25th November – the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and the start of the 16 Days of Action against Gender Violence Campaign. And as I haven’t been posting much recently, and as I’m pretty much laid up at home at the moment following a hip arthroscopy last weekend, I’m going to be blogging throughout it again this year. So without further ado, here’s my first post for day one of the 16 days, detailing 16 reasons (but there are so many more reasons than that!) why this campaign exists and why it’s still so important. 1. Because femicide. Between January and October this year at least 100 women have been killed through suspected male violence in the UK…

Okay, so I’ve had over a week now to collect my thoughts following the disastrous decision by delegates at UNISON Conference to reject a statement in support of believing women who report violence perpetrated against them, so if you’re not into the minutiae of trade union motions and amendments you’d best look away now. For those who’ve been following recent events on the left, the amendment (8.1) to motion 8 at this year’s National Delegate Conference (NDC) was pretty much a rehash of the statement MarshaJane and I came up with after UNISON Women’s Conference, and which hundreds of trade unionists, including many from UNISON, have already signed up to. You can read the original statement here – Our Movement Must be a Safe Space for…

I’m one of the signatories to today’s letter initiated by Rape Crisis South London calling on the PM to ban ‘rape porn.’ You can find details of the letter and a campaign briefing here – End Violence Against Women Here’s a link to the petition – Close the ‘Rape pornography’ loophole A link to the Guardian coverage here – Criminalise possession of ‘rape porn’, campaigners urge David Cameron BBC coverage here – Call to close ‘rape pornography website loophole And The Independent’s piece on it here – Campaigners call for change in ‘rape porn’ laws in wake of April Jones and Tia Sharp murders

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